Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some of the phrases might have come from a Reagan speech. For example: ". . . the political arrogance that would have bureaucrats run our economy and dictate our daily lives." On some of the most critical issues, like reducing the federal deficit, the document offers platitudes rather than a firm position. Bland cliches give only token attention to traditional Democratic concerns such as civil rights and equal rights for women...
Harvard's duo of Kristen Bland and Robin Boss copped the B-flight doubles crown, but the combo of Kathy Vigna and Martha Berkman placed sixth in A-flight action...
...singles competition, Bland took fourth place in the E-flight singles, while Cyndi Austrian finished fifth in the F-flight event...
...anything interesting has ever happened at Harvard, it seems to have been systematically excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution with a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60's. Clearly, such a short book cannot include every significant event in the University's past, but the lack of any disscussion...
...announcement was bland enough: Charles Schwab, probably the country's best-known discount broker, resigned last week from the 15-member BankAmerica board "to devote undivided time and attention" to the brokerage firm bearing his name, which he sold to the same bank in 1983. But in fact the move had more subterranean implications for the No. 2 banking company in the U.S., which shocked the investment world last month with a second-quarter loss of $640 million. Schwab's sudden departure seemed to be another sign of a muted power struggle at the huge (assets: $117 billion) San Francisco...